Testing of residential homes under wind loads

Natural Hazards Review

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 166-170

  Simiu, Emil ^a   Bitsuamlak, Girma ^b   Chowdhury, Arindam Gan ^b   Li, Ruilong ^b   Tecle, Amanuel ^b   Yeo, Donghun ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Florida International University   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerodynamics; Low rise structures; Residential buildings; Wall of Wind; Wind engineering; Wind tunnels

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC PRESSURE; AERODYNAMIC TESTING; DEGREE OF CONSERVATISM; FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY; LOW-RISE BUILDINGS; LOW-RISE STRUCTURES; MODEL SCALE; RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS; RESIDENTIAL HOMES; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; TURBULENCE SCALE; UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO; WIND ENGINEERING; WIND FLOW; WIND LOAD;

AERODYNAMICS; TURBULENCE; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS); WIND TUNNELS;

MEASUREMENT ERRORS;

AERODYNAMICS; BUILDING; ERROR ANALYSIS; JET; RESEARCH WORK; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; SUBURBAN AREA; TURBULENCE; WIND FORCING; WIND TUNNEL;

CANADA; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; ONTARIO [CANADA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 83755207592     PISSN: 15276988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000034     Document Type: Article

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